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To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Subject: Re: DES & MD5? 
Cc: Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:31:22 +0930."
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:04:06 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906151628010.1783-100000@bragg> Kris
Kennaway writes:
: In reality of course, it's better to be safe and use strong password methods
: even when they 'should' not be needed by virtue of the password file being
: hidden.

This is of course true.

However, IIRC, the pain to do this is high.

Warner


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